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AND  SOME  AN  HUNDREDFOLD 

THE  STORY  OF  ANKING 
BY  THE  REVEREND  EDMUND  J.  LEE,  M.A. 


ANKING  is  on  the  Tang-tse 
River,  360  miles  from  the 
coast.  It  is  a city  of  great 
importance,  for  it  is  the  capi- 
tal of  the  Province  of  Anhwei,  contain- 
ing 24,000,000  people.  Here  are  located 
the  great  military  camps  and  the  chief 
provincial  schools  and  colleges.  Here  too 
reside  the  governor,  treasurer  and  chief 
justice  of  the  province,  with  a host  of 
minor  and  expectant  officials,  who  give  a 
distinctive  tone  to  Anting  society,  and 
while  they  increase  the  difficulty  also  in- 
crease the  importance  of  the  city  as  a 
centre  for  Church  work. 

The  Anking  mission  was  opened  in 
1894,  but  for  four  years  it  was  without 
foreign  supervision,  and  the  work  lagged. 
In  1898,  the  Rev.  C.  P.  Lindstrom  was 
sent  to  take  charge.  In  1900  Edmund 
L.  Woodward,  m.d.,  joined  him,  and  the 
same  year  the  first  piece  of  land  was 
purchased,  a hill  next  the  great  city 
temple  in  the  very  heart  of  the  city’s 
activities,  the  ideal  location  for  evan- 
gelistic work.  The  contract  was  let  and 
work  begun  immediately  on  mission 
buildings.  But  the  Boxer  uprising  in 
the  north  gave  a temporary  check. 
The  missionaries  were  recalled  to  Shang- 
hai and  for  six  months  the  mission 
premises  were  under  the  protection  of 
the  officials.  During  this  time  the  con- 
tractor became  insolvent  and  spent  the 
Chinese  New  Year  at  the  top  of  the  city 
pagoda  to  escape  from  his  creditors. 

The  missionaries  returned  early  in 
1901.  Work  on  the  buildings  was  re- 
sumed and  pushed  to  completion.  That 
autumn  St.  James’s  Hospital  received 
the  first  ward  patients  and  held  its  first 
clinic.  The  same  year  witnessed  the  first 
step  of  expansion  in  the  opening  of  the 
oldest  out-station  at  Taihu.  It  will  he 
impossible  to  follow  in  detail  the  steps 
of  the  mission’s  development.  It  will  he 
indicated,  however,  by  putting  in  con- 


trast with  that  time  of  small  beginnings 
the  Anking  mission  as  it  is  to-day. 

In  1901  the  mission  was  in  contracted 
quarters  on  one  small  compound,  as  the 
walled  mission  enclosure  is  called.  This 
has  been  quite  doubled  in  size  by  subse- 
quent purchase,  and  is  to  be  used  ex- 
clusively for  the  central  church  and  the 
parish  work  of  Anking,  though  St. 
Paul’s  School  is  still  temporarily  quar- 
tered there.  In  addition,  a new  com- 
pound of  fifteen  acres  has  been  secured 
in  another  section  of  the  city  as  head- 
quarters for  the  medical  and  educational 
work.  The  hospital,  foreign  residences 
and  St.  Agnes’s  School  for  Girls  are  al- 
ready located  there,  while  St.  Paul’s 
High  School  will  be  moved  over  as  soon 
as  buildings  can  be  constructed  to  re- 
ceive it.  Three  acres  of  land,  which 
will  cost  about  $3,500,  are  needed  to  com- 
plete this  compound.  The  size,  location 
and  value  of  the  six  lots  needed  may  be 
seen  from  a glance  at  the  accompanying 
maps.  Their  purchase  will  complete 
for  the  Church  one  of  the  finest  mission 
compounds  in  China  and  ensure  room 
for  the  development  of  all  our  work. 

A hospital  has  the  advantage  of  a 
school  or  a church  in  that  while  these 
last  must  be  built  up  slowly  through 
years,  the  hospital,  given  the  doctors  and 
nurses,  needs  only  to  open  its  doors  in 
China  to-day,  and  in  a month  it  is  a 
flourishing  institution.  So  it  was  with 
St.  James’s  Hospital;  the  work  grew  so 
rapidly  that  it  soon  became  evident  that 
the  building  was  hopelessly  inadequate 
to  the  needs  of  the  situation.  Dr.  Wood- 
ward came  home  and  laid  the  matter  be- 
fore the  Church,  meeting  with  such  a 
generous  response  that  on  his  return  he 
was  able  to  erect  on  the  new  compound 
what  is  probably  at  present  the  finest 
hospital  building  in  China.  The  new 
St.  James’s  Hospital  can  accommodate 
eighty  in-patients  and  has  operating 


BISHOP  ROOTS  AND  THE  EVANGELISTIC  STAFF  AT  ANKINQ 


room  and  laboratory  facilities,  making 
possible  medical  work  of  the  high 
standard  of  Western  lands.  It  was 
opened  last  year  in  a most  impressive 
ceremony  by  the  governor  of  the  prov- 
ince himself,  the  other  high  officials  be- 
ing present.  The  hospital  is  manned  by 
a staff  of  two  American  and  two  Chinese 
physicians,  assisted  by  two  American 


and  a score  or  more  Chinese  nurses  and 
orderlies.  It  treats  in  ward  and  clinic 
about  20,000  cases  a year,  the  patients 
coming  from  all  the  surrounding  district 
to  the  distance  of  100  miles,  in  which 
area  there  is  no  other  hospital. 

The  medical  work  reaches  all  classes. 
The  first  patient  in  the  new  hospital  was 
a beggar-boy;  one  of  the  first  on  the 


THE  NEW  ST.  JAMES’S  HOSPITAL  CARES  IN  ITS  WARDS  AND 
CLINICS  FOR  MORE  THAN  20,000  P.^TIENTS  A YEAR 


women’s  side  a slave  girl,  both  now  re- 
claimed to  the  Church.  This  for  one 
end  of  the  social  scale.  For  the  other, 
most  of  the  out-cases  are  at  the  homes  of 
officials  and  wealthy  families.  Last 
year,  when  the  governor  of  the  province 
was  shot  by  revolutionists,  it  was  Dr. 
Taylor,  of  St.  James’s  Hospital,  who  was 
summoned  to  attend  him.  It  is  rumored 
that  his  services  are  to  be  recognized  by 
an  Imperial  decoration. 

In  the  evangelistic  work,  the  chief 


tion — six  months  as  enquirers,  twelve 
months  as  catechumens,  twelve  months 
as  baptized — until,  after  two  and  a half 
years  of  training  and  testing,  they  are 
admitted  by  confirmation  to  all  the  privi- 
leges of  the  Church. 

The  work  in  the  city  of  Anking  itself 
is,  however,  but  a small  part  of  our  total 
evangelistic  work.  Beginning  with 
Taihu,  in  1901,  we  have  from  time  to 
time  opened  new  out-stations  in  the  sur- 
rounding district,  until  now  we  have 


MRS.  McCarthy  with  some  of  the  girls  of  st.  agnes's  school,  anking 

Mrs.  Li,  the  Chinese  teacher,  stands  at  the  left  of  the  line 


agency  in  broadcast  seed-sowing  is  the 
hospital  itself.  There  is  daily  preach- 
ing to  the  thousands  of  patients  at  the 
clinics  and  closer  xiersonal  work  with 
the  patients  in  the  wards.  In  addition, 
Christian  tracts  are  sold  in  the  streets  of 
the  city  and  in  neighboring  towns,  while 
on  three  nights  of  the  week  there  is 
preaching  for  an  hour  and  a half  to  the 
crowd  in  the  street  chapel  of  the  church 
compound. 

In  these  various  ways,  but  chiefly 
through  the  personal  influence  of  in- 
dividual Christians  themselves,  en- 
quirers are  won.  They  are  then  passed 
through  our  regular  classes  of  instruc- 


twelve  such  stations  at  strategic  places 
in  the  two  prefectures,  together  the  size 
of  Massachusetts,  which  contain  our 
work.  Five  of  these  stations  are  in 
walled  sub-prefectural  cities.  The  out- 
stations  are  worked  by  catechists  and 
supervised  by  visits  from  the  clergy  in 
Anking.  On  our  visits  we  examine  the 
enquirers  and  catechumens,  attend  to 
cases  of  discipline,  and  administer  the 
sacraments.  The  number  of  such  sta- 
tions could  be  multiplied  indefinitely,  if 
we  had  only  catechists  to  man  them  and 
clergy  to  supervise.  We  constantly  re- 
ceive applications  to  open  stations  from 
towns  and  communities,  which,  owing  to 


MRS.  YEN,  THE  ANKING  BIBLE-WOMAN 
AND  HER  CHILDREN 

the  smallness  of  our  staff,  we  must  for 
the  present  refuse. 

The  Church  in  all  of  the  stations  num- 
bers 260  baptized,  with  some  two  thou- 
sand others  in  various  stages  of  prepara- 
tion for  baptism. 

The  chief  need  in  the  evangelistic 
work  is  for  a church  in  Anking  itself. 
Here,  at  the  centre  of  all  this  work,  our 
only  church  building  is  the  little  chapel 
built  in  1901,  which  affords  uncom- 
fortable seatings  for  only  150  persons 
and  cost  originally  $250.  The  church 
desired  will  seat  600  and  cost  about 
$6,000. 

The  schools  form  the  capstone  of  our 
mission  work.  Having  brought  a family 
into  the  Church  we  seek  to  give  a Chris- 
tian education  to  the  children  and  equip 
them  to  work  for  Christ  in  their  native 
land.  In  addition,  the  schools  are  an  im- 
portant evangelistic  agency,  as  through 
them  we  are  able  to  enter  the  families  of 
the  wealthy  and  official  classes,  who  can 
be  reached  effectively  in  no  other  way. 
In  fact,  the  present  opportunity  for  edu- 
cational missions  in  China  is  so  great 
as  to  be  difficult  of  exaggeration.  The 
old  order  is  changing  rapidly  and  the 


leaders  of  the  new  China  will  be  the 
young  men  in  the  schools  and  colleges 
to-day.  The  influences  of  the  many  gov- 
ernment schools  are  almost  always  infldel 
and  materialistic.  Our  opportunity  is 
by  the  greater  efficiency  and  thorough- 
ness of  our  schools  to  attract  to  them  the 
brightest  minds  of  young  China  and 
thus  ensure  that  these  leaders  of  the 
future  shall  be  Christian  men. 

St.  Paul’s  High  School  is  the  out- 
growth of  our  little  day-school  of  1901, 
where  a handful  of  ragged  urchins  from 
the  street  were  brought  and  taught  in 
the  old  Chinese  style.  The  school  is  now 
exclusively  a boarding-school.  It  has  a 
staff  of  three  foreign  and  three  native 
teachers;  and,  while  not  neglecting  the 
Chinese  classics,  gives  instruction,  ac- 
cording to  approved  Western  methods,  in 
English  history,  mathematics  and  physi- 
cal science.  The  principal  of  St.  Paul’s 


CATECHIST  NIEH  OP  SEO-SUNG  AND  HIS 
FAMILY 

An  efficient  herald  of  the  Gospel  to  his 
oum  people 


is  Mr.  W.  McCarthy,  for  several  years 
connected  with  Boone  College,  Wu- 
chang. Under  his  capable  management, 
the  school  has  made  great  progress,  so 
that  now  it  easily  leads  all  the  Anking 
Chinese  schools  in  efficiency  and  disci- 
pline. This  gives  it  a great  opportunity. 

St.  Paul’s  receives  pupils  from  the 
out-station  preparatory  schools  and  pre- 
pares for  Boone  College  and  St.  John’s 
University.  It  has  been  greatly  handi- 
capped in  its  work,  however,  by  being  lo- 
cated, up  to  the  present,  in  temporary 


will  be  completed  to  enable  the  school  to 
move  over  by  next  September. 

St.  Agnes’s  School  for  Girls,  like  St. 
Paul’s,  is  the  outgrowth  of  a day-school. 
Its  great  field  for  influence  may  be 
known  from  the  fact  that,  while  there 
are  dozens  of  schools  for  boys  in  Anking, 
St.  Agnes’s  is  the  only  school  for  girls 
in  the  city.  There  is,  however,  a grow- 
ing demand  for  female  education,  and 
when  we  opened  the  school  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  present  year  there  were  twice 
as  many  applications  for  admission  from 


THE  CONGREGATION  AT  SEO-SUNG.  ONE  OP  ANKING’S  OUT-STATIONS 


quarters  on  the  Church  compound. 
Here  its  quarters  are  unsatisfactory,  and 
being  removed  nearly  a mile  from  the 
compound  containing  the  residences  of 
the  foreigners,  it  is  very  difficult  to  give 
it  the  supervision  necessary  for  proper 
discipline.  In  addition,  the  buildings 
now  occupied  are  greatly  needed  for  the 
evangelistic  work,  and  must  be  vacated 
before  the  new  church  can  be  built. 
Plans  have  been  prepared  for  permanent 
buildings  on  the  site  already  provided  on 
the  new  compound.  These  will  accom- 
modate 120  students  and  cost  $12,000. 
It  is  hoped  that  work  can  be  begun  at 
once  and  that  enough  of  the  buildings 


girls  of  the  higher  classes  as  the  schools 
could  accommodate.  The  chief  value  of 
the  school  to  the  mission,  however,  is 
likely  to  be  in  the  training  of  teachers 
for  the  out-station  primary  schools,  as 
such  teachers  can  be  secured  only  with 
the  utmost  difficulty  in  other  ways. 

St.  Agnes’s  School  now  occupies  tem- 
porary quarters,  which  must  be  vacated 
within  six  months.  A gift  of  $1,000 
from  a Philadelphia  Churchwoman  made 
it  possible  to  begin  work  last  spring  on 
buildings  for  permanent  occupation. 
Three  thousand  five  hundred  dollars 
are  still  needed  to  complete  and  equip 
these.  The  importance  of  such  a school 


in  a city  like  Anking  can  hardly  be  over- 
estimated. We  are  seeking  to  give  to 
China  the  Christian  home,  and  woman 
must  be  trained  to  take  in  it  her  rightful 
place. 

From  this  account  of  present  needs 
and  opportunities  it  will  be  seen  that 
$25,000  are  needed  to  complete  the 
Anking  equipment.  Does  the  amount 
seem  large,  and  do  our  ambitions  and 
hoi)es  seem  unreasonable  ? In  these  days 
when  men  are  doing  great  things  for  the 
material  development  of  our  own  and 
distant  lands,  $25,000  is,  comparatively 
speaking,  a trifle.  It  would  hardly 
build  a railroad  bridge  in  China,  or 
equip  an  electric  power  house  to  run 
Shanghai’s  trolleys. 

But  if  $25,000  still  seems  large  in 
bulk,  why  not  break  it  up?  Almost 
everybody  can  have  a hand  then.  For 
instance,  if  one  cannot  give  the  $6,000 
for  the  church,  and  so  make  it  a memor- 
ial to  some  loved  one,  a good  many  can 
give  at  least  $10  for  a pew;  or,  if  that  is 
too  small  an  amount,  $1,500  will  build 
the  chancel.  If  one  cannot  give  $1,000 
to  buy  one  of  the  pieces  of  land,  almost 
anybody  can  buy  a square  yard  at  $1.  If 
$12,000  is  out  of  the  question  for  the 
boys’  school,  it  would  take  only  $1,000  to 


build  a dormitory  for  it,  or  for  tlie  girls’ 
school;  or  $100  will  provide  the  equip- 
ment for  one  pupil,  either  boy  or  girl, 
while  $5  is  enough  for  a desk. 

To  recapitulate:  In  the  spring  of 
1900  the  Anking  staff  consisted  of  one 
foreign  and  one  Chinese  worker;  to-day 
it  has  ten  foreigners  and  thirty  Chinese. 
Then  not  a foot  of  property  was  owned, 
now  two  compounds,  covering  together 
sixteen  and  a half  acres,  afford  an  oppor- 
tunity for  development  unexcelled  per- 
haps in  China.  Then  the  number  on  the 
Church  rolls  as  baptized  or  in  prepara- 
tion were  only  a score,  now  they  are  more 
than  two  thousand — one  hundred  times 
as  many.  Then  St.  James’s  Hospital 
had  not  been  begun ; now  it  is  one  of  the 
largest  and  best  hospitals  in  China. 
Thus  during  these  eight  years  the  work 
has  grown  by  leaps  and  bounds.  But  the 
momentum  of  its  growth  is  now  in 
serious  peril  of  being  checked  unless  the 
equipment  in  buildings  for  the  schools 
and  church  is  promptly  supplied.  And 
this  cheek,  too,  will  come  at  a time  when 
remarkable  conditions  in  China  open  out 
opportunities  unparalleled  in  the  past. 
Truly  in  this  time  of  crisis  there  is  a call 
for  wisdom  and  self-denial  from  those 
who  are  the  stewards  of  their  Lord. 


Copies  of  this  leaflet  may  be  obtained  from  the  Cor- 
responding Secretary,  281  Fourth  Avenue,  Nezv  York,  by 
asking  for  leaflet  No.  266. 

Offerings  for  the  Anking  Equipment  Fund,  marked 
“Special  for  Anking,”  should,  in  common  zeith  all  other  offer- 
ings for  the  zi’ork  in  China,  be  sent  to  Gf.orgk  C.  Thomas, 
Treasurer,  281  Fourth  Az'enue,  Neiv  York. 


I— Dooembor,  1908.  2 M.  .Sp. 


